Recent surveys show that many Irish teenagers rate their emotional health and well-being as bad or only average. A 2017 UNICEF report even suggested that Ireland’s teenage suicide rate is the fourth highest among high-income countries in the world

The cost of the AIB bailout was approximately €20Billion funded by the people of Ireland. Our citizens now live with the largest per capita national debt in the EU. Through great sacrifice and sever austerity the people have seen the Irish economy recover and with it AIB.

An Irish International Youth Corps (Óige in Áirde) which will give young Irish people the opportunity to spend a year developing key skills and serving overseas, building on the long Irish tradition of international aid and support for the developing world.

Child obesity is the biggest threat to the health of our nation. Safefood research estimates that 85,000 children currently living on the island will die prematurely due to overweight and obesity. But efforts to combat this epidemic are being placed on the backburner behind the urgent demands of the health crisis -trolley numbers, waiting lists, and other scandals.